This report documents proceedings from the British Sociological Association (BSA) supported by SHAAP interdisciplinary symposium ‘How do different disciplines talk about alcohol and how can we work better together?’ held at RCPE on 22 April 2016.
This report documents proceedings from the British Sociological Association (BSA) supported by Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) interdisciplinary symposium ‘How do different disciplines talk about alcohol and how can we work better together?’ held in the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on Friday 22 April 2016.
Symposium sections and disciplines included:
History and Alcohol Research
Alcohol and the Sociological Imagination
Nursing: Viewing the world from a different place through a different prism
Epidemiology and alcohol research
Alcohol research from a Public Health perspective
Geography
Psychology
Speakers included:
Eric Carlin, Director, Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems
Carol Emslie, Senior Lecturer, Lead substance use and misuse group, Glasgow Caledonian University
Dr James Nicholls, Director of Research and Policy Development, Alcohol Research UK
Dr Thomas Thurnell Read, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Coventry University
Dr Aisha Holloway, Senior Lecturer/Clinical Academic Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh
Dr John Holmes, Sheffield Alcohol Research Group, University of Sheffield
Dr S Vittal Katikireddi, Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Public Health, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Research Unit, University of Glasgow
Dr Niamh Shortt, Senior Lecturer in Health Geography and co- director of the Centre for Environment, Society and Health (CRESH), The University of Edinburgh
Dr Richard De Visser, Reader in Psychology, University of Sussex
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Responsible thinking: BSA Alcohol Study Group, supported by SHAAP
January 2017